Oxford accused of hushing up sex attacks

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Oliver Moody

Last updated at 12:01AM, March 22 2014

More than a dozen students at the University of Oxford have given graphic
accounts of alleged sexual assaults and rapes in a pamphlet that accuses the
university of blaming and “betraying” victims.

Writing anonymously in a booklet produced by the Oxford University Student
Union, men and women describe a “culture of silence” which they said
prevented them from reporting allegations of sexual violence.

In the unsigned foreword, the editor calls the tract “a collection of stories
of sexual violence, [by people] who, in their own words, express a whole
spectrum of feelings from antagonism, anger and frustration to sadness,
guilt